Prevalence and incidence of chronic kidney diseases in Hong Kong: a 12-year territory-wide retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over the past decades, epidemiology studies on chronic kidney disease (CKD) have been widely conducted globally, but research on its prevalence and incidence in Chinese population remain scarce. This retrospective cohort study utilized all creatinine and urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio data obtained from the Clinical Data Analysis and Reporting System (CDARS), a territory-wide electronic medical database in Hong Kong, to provide the most up-to-date and largest Chinese cohort with long-term follow-up for comprehensive analysis of the trends in CKD prevalence and incidence.

Methods

Patients diagnosed with CKD between 2010 and 2021 were identified from CDARS. Prevalence, crude incidence, and age-standardized incidence using the United Nations population in 2018 as

SUBMITTER: Yue NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12685507 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature